Do you suppose?

i went out this morning
to defrost the car
the patio table stopped me cold
fairies had visited
there, on the table,
in the frost,
they had drawn
vines and flowers

without leaving footprints!
how clever.

I tawt I taw ...

I tawt I taw a puddy tat! I did! I did! I did taw a puddy tat!

v v v v v ... uuuuu ... etc. etc. etc.

I-275 Northern Kentucky ... a November rain. The weatherman said it was around 2.26" of rain ... AFTER already southern Ohio already set an alltime annual precipitation record.

Beastly Goblin

A sample of the horrors of Halloween

Cherry Grove, Ohio

Triangular and rectangular UFO's swarming Cherry Grove shopping center's parking lot

Official Greeter

Bob ain't feeling so well today as he greets people at his restraunt

Mowing the lawn

Mowing the lawn.  Well, it rained a lot this summer in the Cincinnati area and I got behind on mowing.  So, I fired my old mid-80's vintage Simplicity 4211 and went to work.  This area was particulary high and stubborn.  Simplicity 4211 hydraulic drive - one heck of a mower. I did replace the motor a couple of years ago.  Now it's about 13 HP.

Did you ever dream ...

... that you went ...

Fleeting Wines?

No ... leading lines ... warning ... do not look at this image more than a couple of seconds.

Had a bad day ...

Made it better. Don Pablos, Rookwood Plaza, Norwood, Ohio. Ahhhhhh ....

Ha!

... you figure this one out.

Today ...

Today, while banking, I took the time ...

Something's Fishy

Piece D'art in Northern Kentucky. Minor crop, conversion to B&W, and some brightness/contrast alterations.

What the dickens was that?

Somebody was running by the window!

She's not sleeping ...

She not sleeping ... she's looking for a particular card to open and read. Happy graduation!

Astral Photography!

Spacy abstract ... finger in front of flash - cat on floor

Caught my eye ...

Some photoshopping ...

I wuz up early that day ...

Daybreak over Clermont County Ohio.

Game

Some sort of game (what is was I don't recall at the moment) at a movie theater ... (and it probably don't matter anyway) ...

Shrouded?

No ... crowded!

What's That Song?

Melancholy baby! Taken at movie theater lobby.

Unusual

Some unusual clouds t'other day ...

What's that sound?

Silence. After more years than I can remember, this Simplicity dealer (and once Power King, Ford, and New Holland tractors) has finally closed up shop. So I salute all owners and employees over the years. My dad did not ever express one complaint about the services provided by this dealership. Nor have I. Dad has 2 simplicity lawn tractors, one from the 60's. I've kept a mid-80's running and often used it like a bush hog. I'm proud to say that my mower was one of the very last fixed by this dealership. Any part I ever needed was in stock at the time I needed it. How many businesses can we say that about these days?

Hungry?

We were. A late lunch at Moyer Vineyard, Winery, & Restaurant near Manchester, Ohio. Gooood!!!

A Close Call

March 11, 2011 at New Richmond, Ohio. The Ohio River's only a couple of feet from spilling onto Front Street. Luckily, the river has probably crested and New Richmond was, for the most part, spared this time around.



(... some days later ...)

About a Hundred Greenbacks

Clean out those change jars people! Here's a hundred bucks or so that was hanging around, here and there, about the house! It's easier to carry it to the changearoo machine when carried inside old sox! Makes the coins smell funny tho ~~~

Chop, Chop,Flip,Flip .... whoosh!

Creations and entertainment by the Chef at Miyako Hibachi & Sushi in Crescent Springs, Kentucky. There, I had the pleasure of sharing the evening celebrating the Saints Womens Basketball Team after winning their final game: "Top-Ranked Saints Finish Regular Season Undefeated With a 73-48 Win Over No. 14 Saint Vincent"

Exercise in Geometry

Geometric shapes courtesy Panera's Bread, Clifton, Ohio. Unfortunately, I must have had the zoom activated which really only crops the image; thus, the larger image is smaller than a normal larger image. Ya know what I mean? Now I have to go back and check it before I do this some more. What? You don't understand? It's not worth thinking about at this point. Forgeddaboudit.

Driving I-275

The Winter of 2011, I-275, Zoom Zoom! Actually, more or less, humm humm.

HIT THE BRAKES!!!!

The Interstate was shut down. Screech!

chicken or the egg?

which came first?

a) me photographing them photographing me photographing them?

b) them photographing me photographing them photographing me?

orrscic

order, repetition, rythym, shape contrast, color contrast, individuality, compliance (this one, mild photoshopped saturation and brightness tweaks)

Half Off Day

AN early morning chill is in the air while folks wait for the doors to open on Half Off Saturday! at Goodwill

lip smackin' good

Cold Stone Creamery

plures spheres

A Blackberry capture of a swarm of orbs passing near Beechmont Avenue, January 20, 2011

East Fork Park Walkabout

A short winter's walk off Zagar Road, near Afton, Ohio inside Ohio's East Fork State Park. An outhouse is roughly straight across the creek from the shelter. A Google Map of this excursion is here

Where animals danced on Slab Camp Run:



Water flowing on Slab Camp Run:



Overnight Backcountry Campsite - Number 4 on the other side of Slabcamp Run.



Detail of shelter:

As the French say ...

L'arbre de l'amour. Then again, on the TV show Decoder, it might help to point the way to hidden confederate gold and silver! Hmmm ... maybe both. In any case, these old beech trees are always worth momentary study.

2 Points!

Katie Kees, of the St. Thomas Moore Saints, drops one in, late in the game, against Washington & Jefferson College last Wednesday.  Here's Channel 9's news clip.

Does I Gotta Splain It?

(nuttin 2 say here - u figure it out)

Chilly Revisit of Zagar Road Pond

Starting the new year off, we decided to take a short walk back Zagar Road. Nearby is a pond previously addressed here. The fall images were looking towards the dam. Also, the autumn images were during the drought when the water level was very low.There was a man fishing there and I didn't want to disturb his solitude. For the images below, I am now standing in the center of the dam, looking approximately north east and the drought has been substantially relieved.

She's Up There!

Katie Kees, of the St. Thomas More College Saints, kicks off the last game of 2010 by levitating and stretching a good foot higher than her opponent on the tip off! The Saints won.